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Lyr ADD: When I Was a Cowboy (Leadbelly) Related threads: Lyr/Chords Req: When I Was A Cowboy . . . (19) Lyr Req: When I Was a Cowboy (33) |
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Subject: RE: When I was a cowboy From: alison Date: 08 Dec 97 - 08:27 PM Hi Joe, It worked all right for me. I'm listening to the tune now. I've got the music in front of me too. Slainte Alison |
Subject: Tune Add: WHEN I WAS A COWBOY From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Dec 97 - 07:13 PM Oops! It doesn't work. The error message says "expected string [MThd] was not found. What did I do wrong, Alan? I'm going to try once more here. MIDI file: WHENIW~1.MID Timebase: 192 Text: When I Was A Cowboy To download the November 10 MIDItext 97 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: When I was a cowboy From: Dale Rose Date: 06 Dec 97 - 01:32 PM There is a good recorded version of The Sporting Cowboy by Watts & Wilson on When I Was A Cowboy, Vol. 1,Yazoo 2022, 1996. The album title comes from the first line of that particular song, which is in the database, as Joe mentions above. The CD contains twenty-three cowboy classics from the 20's and 30s. |
Subject: RE: When I was a cowboy From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 05 Dec 97 - 10:23 PM Thanks Joe. That is the song I was after. I haven't really listened to folk music since the 60s when there was a good folk station in Phila. Since they could be relied upon to play the good stuff consistently, I never built up a record collection. Now I think I will start up a CD collection-- not an easy task here in Australia. Murray
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Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN I WAS A COWBOY (from Lead Belly) From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Dec 97 - 10:12 PM WHEN I WAS A COWBOY (as sung by Lead Belly) When I was a cowboy, way out on de Western Plains, When I was a cowboy, way out on de Western Plains, I made a million dollars pullin’ de bridle reins. refrain: Coma-cow-cow, coma-cow-cow, yicky-yicky-yea. Oh, de hardes’ battle was ever on a Bunker Hill, When we an’ a bunch o’ cowboys run into Buffalo Bill. Oh, de hardes’ battle was ever on-a Western plains, When me an’ a bunch o’ cowboys run into Jesse James. When me an’ a bunch o’ cowboys run into Jesse James. De bullets was a-fallin’ jes’ like a shower rain. Coma-cow-cow, coma-cow-cow, yicky-yicky-yea. (from "American Ballads and Folk Songs," John and Alan Lomax) No Odi, Hart, and Spanner, Murray, but I think this is the song you're looking for. If you search the database with brackets for [when I was a cowboy], you should find two songs that start with that line, but they're two versions of a song called "Dallas County Jail." Hope this one does the trick for you, Murray. -Joe Offer- Coma-cow-cow, coma-cow-cow, yicky-yicky-yea |
Subject: When I was a cowboy From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 05 Dec 97 - 09:15 PM I understand most of the works in Leadbelly's "When I Was a Cowboy", but I can't make out the following: xxxxxxx were you ever on the western plains (repeated)// when me and a bunch of cowboys ran into Jessie James. The xxxxxxx sounds like Odi, Hart, and Spanner. Hart was a western movie hero of the time. I wonder if he is addressing three cowboy heros. Thanks for any info. By the way: I couldn't find the song in the database. Murray |
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